12Synonyms found for album

Word Origin & History

album 1650s, from L. album, neut. of albus "white" (see alb). In classical times "a blank tablet on which the prætor's edicts and other public matters were inscribed." Revived 16c. by German scholars whose custom was to keep an album amicorum of colleagues' signatures; meaning then expanded into "book to collect souvenirs." According to Johnson, "a book in which foreigners have long been accustomed to insert autographs of celebrated people." Photographic albums first recorded 1859. Meaning "long-playing gramophone record" is from 1957, because the sleeves they came in resembled large albums.

Example Sentences for album

Digital-book files are tiny-much smaller than a film, and not even as big as a music album.

In the late seventies the music column featuring album reviews transitioned into using illustration.

To turn the pages of this remarkable album is to experience the look of deep cogitation as a mode of being.

Album reissues these days entail more than a simple tune-up.

The album art is often as anticipated as the album itself.

Every day my family's digital photo album is copied to her computer.

Initially bands used it to raise money for studio rental and the production costs for releasing an album.

Asteroids, moons and comets have all been added to the stamp album.

While leafing through a photo album, he noticed that many children diagnosed with eye disease had a red reflex in only one eye.

It's akin to putting every photo in a photo album, and letting the album worry about what people see.